Legal Notice

Legal Notice

This Website is published by: Manufacture Française des Pneumatiques Michelin Place des Carmes Déchaux 63040 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex 9 France Telephone: (33) 4 73 32 20 00 Fax: (33) 4 73 32 63 81 A partnership limited by shares with a capital of €504,000,004 Clermont Ferrand Trade and Companies Registry Number 855 200 507 SIREN Number 855 200 507 Vat Number FR33855200507 Please read this legal notice carefully before consulting this Website. The companies belonging to the Michelin Group are legal entities in their own right and possess an independent legal status. However, with a view to facilitating the communication of information on this Website, the following terms may be employed: “Michelin,” “Group”, “Michelin Group” and “us”; these terms are used to designate all of the companies in the Group which each carry out their business independently.

Article 1: Purpose

The purpose of this legal notice is to set out the conditions under which Michelin makes this Website available to you and the terms and conditions governing your access to and use thereof. Your use of the Website is subject to your compliance with this legal notice, which Michelin reserves the right to amend or update at any given time. By accessing and using the Website, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this legal notice as well as of Michelin’s privacy and personal data protection policy.

Article 2: Website access

Michelin endeavors to ensure the Website remains available, without however being bound by any obligation to do so. Access to the Website may be modified or temporarily suspended for the purposes of maintenance, updating or any other reason, notably of a technical or legal nature. Michelin is on no account liable for these disruptions or any ensuing consequences for the user. You undertake to refrain from accessing the Website, and in particular any interactive services it may offer, in a fraudulent manne

As a general rule, users visiting our Website are not required to disclose their identity or provide personal information. However, you may be asked for personal information in response to an e-mail enquiry, to offer you a specific service, process an order or for marketing purposes. The data collected via our Website are intended for the use of Michelin, selected partners and/or service providers acting on its behalf. Such service providers are contractually obligated to keep your personal data confidential and secure. They are required to use your personal data solely for the needs of the tasks entrusted to them. Michelin undertakes not to sell, rent or trade your personal data to third parties. In order to provide you with the best possible service, Michelin collects anonymous data regarding your use of our Website (such as browsing history and your log-in date and time). Michelin may use this data to analyze trends, compile statistics and measure Website traffic. You may opt out of having these cookies stored. However, should you choose to do so, you may not be able to access all parts of this Website. For further information, please consult our cookie policy. Michelin collects the IP address of your computer in order to locate the city from where you are logging in to the Website. We will only retain the data for the time necessary to establish your location. Pursuant to the French Data Protection Act “Loi Informatique et Libertés” No. 78-17 dated 6 January 1978, amended by Act No. 2004-801 dated August 6, 2004, you have the right to access, rectify and request the deletion of any personal data you may have provided. You are also entitled to oppose the collection and processing of your personal data by Michelin at no cost. Furthermore, pursuant to the French Data Protection Act, you can refuse to permit the use of your data for prospecting purposes. To exercise your rights, simply send a letter to MFPM, Place des Carmes Déchaux, 63040 Clermont Ferrand Cedex 9, France, Service SGCM/IM. Our Website may contain links to other Internet sites. Michelin does not share your personal data with such websites except where social network buttons or plug-ins are used. If you follow a link to any of these websites, you are subject to the said website’s own privacy practices over which Michelin has no control and for which Michelin cannot accept liability. For further information, please refer to Michelin’s privacy and personal data protection policy “Privacy Policy”.

Article 7: Warranties and Liability

7.1 General information

The content published on the Website is provided “as is”, without any warranty, express or implied, of any nature whatsoever. Michelin reserves the right to amend, correct, suspend and/or delete the content or access to the Website at any given time, without prior notice. Michelin may not be held liable in the event of any contamination of your computer equipment resulting from the propagation of viruses or other IT infections. It is your responsibility to take all appropriate measures in order to protect your computer equipment. Michelin, its employees, suppliers or partners mentioned on the Website may not in any event be held liable, under a contractual, tort or any other claim, for any damage, whether direct or indirect, incidental or consequential, or of any nature whatsoever, or for any loss, in particular of financial or commercial nature, resulting from the use of the Website or any information whatsoever obtained therefrom. It is strictly prohibited to create a hyperlink to illegal content as defined in Article 8.2. The Website may contain simple or embedded links towards the websites of Michelin partners or of third parties, with the authorization of the latter for embedded links. Michelin does not have any control over these websites and accordingly bears no responsibility whatsoever as to their accessibility, relevance, availability, content, advertising, products and/or the services available on or from these websites. Consequently, Michelin shall not bear any liability whatsoever for any direct or indirect damage which might result from your access to or use of the partners’ websites or for failure by these websites to comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

7.2 Interactive services

Michelin is under no obligation to verify users’ content published on its Website. Michelin declines all responsibility arising from said content and the verification thereof. The user is solely responsible for any adverse consequences arising from the content posted. However, Michelin is entitled to perform any checks it might feel fit on all or part of said content, prior to or subsequent to its publication. The user is solely responsible for the content of any material submitted to the Website. You represent that you hold all the necessary rights and authorizations to the content that you post. The user agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Michelin from and against all complaints, claims, legal action or appeals filed by third parties alleging that all of part of the content published by or on behalf of the user on the Website is unlawful, violates applicable laws or regulations, undermines law and order, is contrary to generally accepted moral principles, fails to comply with this legal notice, is prejudicial to any third party or infringes their rights. In the event of Michelin being convicted following a lawsuit brought on such grounds, the user having published said litigious content undertakes to reimburse Michelin for all and any damages awarded against Michelin including all legal expenses and lawyers’ fees.

Article 8: Interactive Services

Michelin may provide services which are intended to allow users to participate interactively on the Website including but not limited to participation in forums, contribution to on-line debates, posting of comments and/or articles, voting for content or establishment of an interface with an account on a social network.

8.1 Registration

The use of interactive services may be subject to prior registration by means of completion of a form. This registration leads to the creation of an account with a personal password. You may be required to provide your password to log in to benefit from certain services. Your password must therefore remain strictly confidential. You agree to notify Michelin forthwith in the event of your password being forgotten or stolen. Personal data is processed as laid down in the provisions of Article 6 "Protection of Personal Data" hereinabove.

8.2 User-generated content

You may request that the moderator modifies or removes any content published in your name at any time by indicating the date of publication and the subject matter. It is strictly forbidden to publish any content on the Website, of any type whatsoever, which violates applicable laws or regulations, undermines law and order or generally accepted moral principles, is detrimental to others or in breach of their rights and, in particular, content which is defamatory, offensive, obscene, discriminatory, threatening, contrary to the spirit of the Website, infringes any intellectual property rights of any other person, makes unauthorized use of a third party’s personal data, utilizes another’s image without that person’s express consent or invades their privacy.

8.3 Illegal content and abuse

You acknowledge having been notified that moderation is used in order to verify or remove any content published by the users of interactive services which may be in breach of applicable laws and regulations or which has been reported by the legal authorities as such, without any entitlement to claim compensation in any form whatsoever. Failure to comply with the provisions of this legal notice may result in our taking the following actions: removal of all or part of any material submitted by you to our Website, suspension of your account for 8 weeks or shutting down of your account and withdrawal of your right to register on any Michelin websites. You may also notify Michelin of the publication of any illegal content on the Website which may come to your attention by clicking on “contact”. You may be held liable in the event of misuse of this function

Article 9: Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Any dispute relating to the Website or to this legal notice shall be brought before the Courts of Clermont-Ferrand. The dispute shall be governed and construed in accordance with French law on the merits, independently of conflict of law. Use of the Website implies the user’s express consent to the application of this Article. In the event one of the terms of this legal information should be deemed to be illegal, null and void or inapplicable for any reason whatsoever, it shall be deemed to not be part of this legal notice and shall not affect the validity or application of the other terms.